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- Iraqi official makes a plea for tolerance: "Baghdad used to be 20% Jewish"
- 11/19 Links Pt2: LATMA returns?, Bennett schools Amanpour, Fisk turns on Arafat, Gasoline from water!
- SFSU Pal student group signs "My heroes have always killed colonizers"
- Islamic Jihad's latest terror/music video
- 11/19 Links Pt1: Abbas Cracks Down on Media, Hamas: 'We'll Come to Your Homes, Your Schools'
- Work accident!
- BDS leader explains how the movement is meant to manipulate Western liberals
- Things not looking good on Iran
| Iraqi official makes a plea for tolerance: "Baghdad used to be 20% Jewish" Posted: 19 Nov 2013 05:00 PM PST Aswat al-Iraq reports that Iraqi Undersecretary of the Ministry of Culture Fawzi Al Atrushi, at a conference on the rights of minorities in Iraq, said that 20% of the population of the city of Baghdad in 1921 were Jews, but now they are just footnotes in archives. He also warned that the same could happen to Iraqi minorities like Christians, whose rights continue to be restricted. In a speech at the opening of the conference in Baghdad yesterday that "tolerance is not just a word to be thrown around." "When King Faisal I entered Baghdad in 1921 some 20% of the city's population was Iraqi Jews, and now we are in the year 2013, this component of the Iraqi has turned into a mere archive we are trying to retrieve from the United States after they were repaired and restored." Al Atrushi ccontinued, "The rights of minorities and tolerance among factions is part of culture and education and must reflect conduct on the ground, and not mere meetings and slogans and allegations about a reality does not exist." "[Tolerance and coexistence] are the common ground and the common denominator between all religions and laws and international conventions, and it requires first and foremost the concrete embodiment on the ground. " He said, "Indeed, majorities still prey on minorities, and males dominate, prey and marginalize women because violence is the dominant language among us." Al Atrushi warned that "minorities in Iraq are in danger, and this is our challenge for advancement of all of us to build a civilized country linked to the world today, not in the past. " He added that Iraq is "at a crossroads. Either live and come to terms with a state of citizenship and civil rights and democracy, or a divided nation, as happened in Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and other countries." He warned that Christians, who are at "the root of the historical identity of the nation, are diminishing daily. The Mandaeans, who make up one of the oldest peoples of Iraq, are subjected to exclusion and marginalization, and other Iraqi factions as well." "Even the Kurdish people were threatened by the former regime by a most heinous racist war that threatened their existence." Atrushi said, "We in the Ministry of Culture are interested in maintaining diversity and pluralism and coexistence between the segments and the components of the Iraqi people, whether ethnic, religious, sectarian or intellectual, because that is the way to weave a national identity of an Iraqi culture of diversity rather than a culture of one type. " He stressed that for tolerance to be a reality it "must be accompanied by an apology, an apology from the majorities to the minorities, which provides a clean atmosphere and environment for reconciliation, all experiments done by civilized peoples prove it." I'm not familiar enough with that part of the world to know how anomalous these words are. I have not stumbled onto many speeches like this in Arabic media. Icoul dnot find any mention of this speech on either Iraq's Ministry of Culture website nor on Atrushi's own personal website.           |
| Posted: 19 Nov 2013 03:00 PM PST From Ian: At Last? Channel 1 to Sign Contract with 'Latma' Satire The Chairman and the Director of the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) promised the Knesset's Education Committee Monday that the IBA will sign a contract with nationalistic satire Latma in two months' time, for production of a weekly program.Busted: Former Chair of Major UK Israel Boycott Group Caught Buying Crack, Crystal Meth The former chairman of a British consumer cooperative known for its aggressive boycotts of the Jewish state is at the center of a major controversy after being caught on camera buying illicit drugs.French Government Funding of Politicized NGOs Active in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: BDS and Demonization Organizations receiving French funding engage in political activities and lead campaigns that are inconsistent with French foreign policy in the Middle East, which calls for a "two state" framework, and with French jurisprudence that considers anti-Israel boycotts to constitute incitement and discrimination based on nationality.The Guardian AGAIN falsely suggests that Tel Aviv is Israel's capital So, while reading the following opening passage, in a Nov. 8 article by the Guardian's Middle East Editor Ian Black (Hawks squawk even before Iran nuclear deal is sealed), keep in mind that the paper has at least officially 'acknowledged' that Tel Aviv is NOT the capital of Israel and that the seat of government is located in Jerusalem.Fisk says Yasser Arafat's real problem was that he was too trusting of Israel and AmericaHardliners in Tehran, hawks in Tel Aviv and Washington, nervous Saudis and their Gulf allies are all alarmed at the prospect of a nuclear deal between Iran, the US and the international community. The trouble with Fisk, like all such characters, is that once you've tried everything to discredit the Jewish state, where do you go next? In his latest article, Fisk gives us an answer: the real reason for the failure of a peace was that Yasser Arafat, the Godfather of modern terrorism, was just too generous and trusting:Fisk Revives Uranium Charge? Back in October 2006, Fisk was given the front page of the UK's Independent to spread the libel that Israel had used uranium-based weapons in southern Lebanon. The charge was swiftly debunked yet Fisk and the Independent have never, to this day, retracted this libel.Israel critics can't handle "Brutal Honesty" about Lydda and refugees In other words, Israel is a "do no right colonial monster." Clearly, what Friedman means about the importance of Shavit's book is that Netanyahu should be more forthcoming and give the Palestinians everything that they demand to make peace, because, in truth, Israel is truly responsible for the Palestinians' suffering.Laura Rozen Accuses Jewish Expert of Speaking at Instruction of Israeli Government Foreign policy reporter Laura Rozen tweeted, and then deleted, a claim that a Jewish official at a prominent Washington think tank took positions on Iran at the instruction of the Israeli government.Netanyahu invites Abbas to Knesset 'for sake of peace' Netanyahu, speaking at a special session in honor of visiting French President Francois Hollande, said he would return the favor and speak in Ramallah in service of a two-state solution.Ben-Gurion's Legacy: Resisting U.S. Pressure McDonald further wrote: "Two U.N. Security Council resolutions passed [with U.S. support] have implicitly threatened sanctions if Israeli troops were not withdrawn [from the 'occupied Negev']." Ben-Gurion reacted defiantly: "Israel has been attacked by six Arab States. As a small country, Israel must reserve the right of self-defense even if it goes down fighting. … As Ben-Gurion once put it to me, 'What Israel has won on the battlefield, it is determined not to yield at the [U.N. Security] Council table.'"Minister Bennett: Now is Most Fateful Time for Israel Since Yom Kippur War On a mission in the U.S. to represent Israel's position on the ongoing nuclear talks between Iran and world powers, the Jewish state's Economy Minister Naftali Bennett was blunt and to the point, speaking before a crowd at Manhattan's 92nd Street Y Sunday.Bennett: One Cannot 'Occupy' His Own Homeland When Amanpour, however, used the term "occupied West Bank" in her question, Bennett held up a coin which, he pointed out, was "used by Jews 2,000 years ago in the state of Israel." PA: No Peace Without Full 'Right of Return' In a law approved by the PA parliament in 2008, and signed into law by Abbas, the "right of return of Palestinian refugees to their homes and property, along with compensation for their suffering, is a holy cornerstone of their rights that cannot be negotiated away. There will be no consideration of negotiation on this issue, nor will there be a referendum on it," the law says.UN chief Ban Ki-moon visits Auschwitz Ban said "nothing can truly prepare one for this epicenter of evil, where systematic murder unique in human history reached its atrocious climax."Knesset to Speak Up for Rights of Jews Expelled from Arab Lands As the date for Israel's independence edged closer throughout the 1940s, Jews who had lived for centuries in Arab-majority countries such as Egypt, Iraq, and Libya found themselves increasingly persecuted by their Arab co-nationals.Israel in the Philippines Israel is so ready to extend aid in part precisely because we have grappled with and overcome so many difficulties. Our experiences give us so much to offer others. In dealing with our own unique challenges, Israelis have become experts at dealing with emergency scenarios; have the know-how to develop agriculture in deserts; and have developed water conservation techniques in a region that is desperately short of water.Philippines ambassador joins Jerusalem youths in effort for typhoon victims Philippine Ambassador Generoso D.G. Calogne rolled up his sleeves, along with 21 eighth-graders from Boys Town Jerusalem in the capital Monday morning, to pack much-needed relief supplies for Typhoon Haiyan survivors still reeling from the devastating tropical storm.IDF Home Front Command Repairs School in the Philippines Christian IDF Recruitment Numbers Affirm Israeli Democracy Over the summer, the Israeli media highlighted a phenomenon that is both intriguing and encouraging: a movement among Israel's Christian Arabs advocating that their community be drafted, along with the country's Jewish and Druze citizens, into the Israel Defense Forces.Fill 'er up with a gallon of 'water gasoline' With a revolutionary system for making gasoline out of hydrogen extracted from water, and from carbon dioxide, two of the most common substances on earth, Herskowitz believes that he and his team at Ben-Gurion (including Prof. Miron Landau, Dr. Roxana Vidruk, and others at BGU's Blechner Center for Industrial Catalysis and Process Development) have come up with the one alternative fuel that can succeed on a wide scale.TIME names ReWalk among '25 Best Inventions of the Year 2013 Israeli-developed exoskeleton for paraplegics is one of TIME magazine's 25 Best Inventions of the Year 2013. The medical device developed by ARGO Medical Technologies is hailed for the autonomy it gives back to those who need it most.In Israel, water where there was none Israel, hoping to build on its home-grown success, is now turning to Massachusetts as an ally in this contest between nature and technology as rising temperatures, spreading deserts, growing populations, and pollution make water an increasingly precious commodity around the world. Attracted by the state's technical know-how, innovative culture, and access to world markets, Israeli companies are investing, relocating, and seeking partnerships in Massachusetts to further advance their technologies and build a US platform from which to launch their global ambitions.      |
| SFSU Pal student group signs "My heroes have always killed colonizers" Posted: 19 Nov 2013 01:00 PM PST  At San Francisco State University, the General Union of Palestine Students recently held a celebration of Edward Said, where they have a mural honoring him.At the event, according to AMCHA, the GUPS students set up tables with stencils for making posters with images of known terrorists as well as with the words "MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS KILLED COLONIZERS," which students displayed in the campus square.   The event was covered by the SFSU newspaper, but they didn't mention the hate posters. The comments do, though. One fan of GUPS put the photo above on Indymedia, with the ironic subhead "Rejecting normalization is not incitement to violence." Well, this is. Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers has been all over the story. And they have plenty of other examples of incitement and hate at SFSU. Amcha has a sample letter to send to the president of SFSU. The only way that these disgusting actions can be banned is if there is enough pressure. It would be a very good idea to spend a couple of minutes to write to President Wong and cc: the appropriate California State University and government officials mentioned in the Amcha link.      |
| Islamic Jihad's latest terror/music video Posted: 19 Nov 2013 11:00 AM PST As I was surfing terrorist websites I realized its been a while since I posted one of those terrorist music videos. So here is the latest from Islamic Jihad: Compare, if you will, with my classic 2008 work spoofing terrorist videos: Clearly the terrorists have made video innovations in recent years:
The videos are still interminable, though.      |
| 11/19 Links Pt1: Abbas Cracks Down on Media, Hamas: 'We'll Come to Your Homes, Your Schools' Posted: 19 Nov 2013 09:00 AM PST From Ian: Khaled Abu Toameh: Palestinians: Abbas Cracks Down on Media, World Looks Other Way These groups [human rights, media, Western donor governments] see only what the Israeli authorities do. On the side of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, or Hamas in the Gaza Strip, they "see no evil." For Western governments, so long as the Palestinian Authority leadership says it is committed to the peace process with Israel, its leaders are allowed to rule as a dictatorship.The UK is paying Palestinians to murder Jews The following letter sent to my constituency MP is self-explantory:CAIR's Ayloush Gives Dishonest, Bullying Answer to Hamas Question Cornered by a straightforward question he did not want to answer, the head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Los Angeles office chose instead to misrepresent his organization's actions and feign outrage that the question itself was bigoted.BBC's Knell still can't get Hamas terror designation right Hamas is in fact defined as a terrorist organization by Israel, the United States, the European Union, Canada and Japan – as the BBC's own profile of Hamas clearly states. In addition, Australia designates Hamas' Izz al Din Al Qassam Brigades as a terrorist organization, as do New Zealand and the United Kingdom.Hamas: 'We'll Come to Your Homes, Your Schools' Speaking on behalf of Hamas at the College for Science and Technology in Khan Yunis on Monday, al-Masri emphasized that the next conflict with Israel would be underground, and that "we will enter your homes, your schools, your positions and your strongholds."A strike on Iran: Complex, but possible The number of facilities that would need to be hit to deal a fatal blow to Iran's nuclear infrastructure is generally overestimated. The essential ingredient for building a nuclear bomb is uranium enriched to a level of more than 90%, meaning that the enrichment facilities at Natanz and Fordo must be taken care of. The reactor at Arak, designed to produce plutonium (another fissionable material suitable for building a nuclear bomb), is not yet active, but it is a worthy target, similar to the reactor that was destroyed in Iraq in 1981.Netanyahu has nothing to lose except losing What could save the deal is if the Iranians fake throwing up their hands. What could save the world from a bad deal is if the ayatollahs harden their positions. The level of doubt over Iran's behavior, to the point where even Washington, eager for a compromise with Tehran, could resist acquiescence, marked the core of Secretary of State John Kerry's decision to take a rain check on his visit to Jerusalem this week; he's not sure what might be in his hands come Friday.Netanyahu: 'Partial deals are bad deals' "I don't advocate partial deals. I think partial deals are bad deals," Netanyahu told host Candy Crowley in an interview Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union." "If you want to do a partial deal, then decide what the final deal is, and then do one step. Decide that the final deal will actually implement the very terms that you, the P5+1, have put in the Security Council resolution."US Jewish leaders feel misled by White House over Iran deal The US Jewish leaders feel that the administration showed a "lack of trust" in them, a source close to the contacts said.PM: Iran already has enough material for five bombs "The Iranians already have five bombs' worth of low-enriched uranium," he told the German daily Bild. "If you press the sanctions now, you might actually get a better deal. If you have a bad diplomatic solution — what this appears to be — you actually may get the consequences you want to avoid. That is, you would have no choice but to exercise a military option in the future."Steinitz: World willing to cheat itself over Iran Warning that the "world is cheating itself" over the deal," Steinitz said, "Tomorrow, there will be a return to the negotiations table in Geneva, and in light of the agreement taking shape, I'd like to clarify that the government of Israel believes this is a bad deal. No one can force us to take part in the celebration, which could be a fake celebration. It's important to stress that if someone thinks that it is comfortable and pleasant to be the one who spoils the celebration, they are wrong. We would prefer to be part of the celebration, but on such a critical issue to our welfare and to world peace, we will not lie to ourselves," Steinitz said.We'll continue enriching, won't shut nuclear sites, Iran lawmaker says Speaking to Iran's Arabic-language news station Al-Alam, Mohammad Hassan Asfari, a member of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Affairs committee, reported on a meeting with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at Iran's foreign ministry Sunday evening. Zarif updated the parliamentarians on the recent round of talks in Geneva and on Iran's strategy for the upcoming round set to commence in Geneva this Wednesday.Iranian dissidents say Iran has built secret new nuclear site An exiled Iranian opposition group said on Monday it had information about an underground nuclear site being built in Iran and that this was among a number of secret venues for an atomic bomb program.23 killed in attack on Iran's embassy in Beirut Two suicide bombings struck near the Iranian Embassy in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Tuesday, killing 23 people, including the Iranian cultural attache.Hanegbi shoots down Iranian claims that Israel behind Beirut blasts Hanegbi said that it was quite humorous that a country that has perpetuated terror around the world, now is blaming others.Beirut bombing sees Iran drawn deeper into Lebanon quagmire Evidently, however, even such stringent security precautions — introduced at potential Iranian targets as well — could not thwart Tuesday's bombings. The Iranians are themselves now learning the bitter lesson they taught Israel: the combination of explosives and a highly motivated terrorist make the suicide bomber a devastating and hard-to-stop weapon.Group behind Beirut bombing has fired rockets at Israel The Abdullah Azzam Brigade, the al-Qaeda-affiliated group that claimed responsibility for Tuesday's deadly attack on the Iranian embassy in Beirut, has threatened in the past to launch an offensive against Israel.Why Has the U.N. Given Assad a Free Pass on Mass Murder? During the past year, the United Nations' chief relief agency has routinely withheld from the public vital details of the Bashar al-Assad regime's systematic campaign to block humanitarian assistance to Syrian civilians. This silence has infuriated human rights advocates, who believe that greater public exposure of Assad's actions would increase political pressure on the Syrian government to allow the international community to help hundreds of thousands of ordinary Syrians who are trapped in the line of fire.UN Watch: At UN, Syria's murderous regime compares Israelis to Nazis Jews help Syria's innocent victims in Bulgaria Unable to handle the growing number of refugees, the Bulgarian authorities are helpless to offer anything more than overcrowded camps in poor condition with little medical care or food.'Egypt signs missile deal with Russia' The head of Russia's state-controlled industrial holding company says Moscow has signed a deal to provide Egypt with air defense missile systems.US to Train Libyan Forces As Militias Ravage Tripoli On Sunday, following heavy violence in Tripoli, a senior US military official revealed plans to train up to 7,000 members of Libya's security and special operations forces, according to Al Arabiya.Turkey's secularists alarmed over rise of Islamic 'moralism' Tension between religious and secular elites has long been one of the underlying fault lines in the predominantly Muslim but constitutionally secular republic, forged from the ruins of an Ottoman theocracy by Ataturk 90 years ago.      |
| Posted: 19 Nov 2013 07:00 AM PST  Ma'an reports:A Palestinian fighter was killed and four others were injured Tuesday morning in an explosion in Tal al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City.Some reports said Bahloul was a bodyguard for top Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar. The Al Qassam website says that al-Bahloul, 35, was killed "during a jihad mission." The Hamas terror movement beseeched Allah to allow him to be considered a martyr so he can reap his heavenly rewards. Allah had no comment.      |
| BDS leader explains how the movement is meant to manipulate Western liberals Posted: 19 Nov 2013 05:00 AM PST The Badil Center, a Palestinian Arab organization that is a major force behind the BDS movement, has published an extensive analysis in Jadaliyya magazine of their perspective on its progress and shortcomings over the past eight years. The magazine reprints what appears to be a seminal 2011 piece by Nimer Sultany of SOAS in London, one of the theoreticians behind today's BDS movement. A careful reading of his article reveals the pure hypocrisy that underpins the entire anti-Israel movement. Sultany brings up three points and potential pitfalls about BDS. His first point is about the role of pacifism and violence in Palestinian Arab discourse: Palestinian history oscillates between two dogmas: the new dogma of nonviolence and the old dogma of violence and armed struggle. ...Given its apparent failure to achieve its declared objective, armed struggle has given way to nonviolence, which has become more fashionable today since it resonates with Western perspectives. Given that stereotypes cast Palestinians as violent, aggressive, and irrational Arabs or Muslims, Palestinians are forced to declare their pacifism before being admitted to the world of legitimate discourse or given a hearing of their views.So while BDSers swear up and down that they are against violence, we see that the truth is quite the opposite. The movement is meant to sway Westerners, but it is not meant to mirror how Palestinian Arabs think. Amongst themselves, violence is considered quite acceptable - but not prudent at this time. Next year, it is possible that violence might come back into vogue. He even refers to the current Palestinian Arab pretense of nonviolence as "fashionable." There is no morality here except the "noble" goal of destroying the Jewish state, and for that, all means are on the table. Pretending that they embrace non-violence for moral reasons is simply a scam to fool clueless Western liberals. Sultany's second point is about international law: The boycott movement speaks the language of human rights and international law. It is intended to pressure Israel to abide by international law. By doing so, it risks falling into the trap identified by critical legal scholars. The risk has two aspects. First, there is a danger in conflating law with justice; there is no intrinsic connection between law and justice. The gap between them may not be apparent to those who equate the attainment of justice with the application of law. Second is the belief that applying international law can produce self-evident, concrete consequences; this belief presupposes that applying law is a mechanical operation. But law-application involves inevitably normative interpretations that are not independent of power relations and hegemonic understandings. In addition, law (whether local or international) is not a monolithic entity nor a gapless system. Rather, it contains gaps, ambiguities, and contradictions...Sultany understands that while the anti-Israel movement uses the language of international law and human rights, they don't really mean it - if they can be interpreted in ways that is detrimental to the cause. If, for example, the definition of "refugee" is standardized so that Palestinian Arabs have the dame definition as the rest of the world, that would be quite supportable under international law - but it would be catastrophic for a movement whose intent for decades has been to use millions of people as pawns to help destroy Israel. The same can be said for the definition of "occupation" - if Gaza or Areas A is not occupied, the Israel-haters lose a great deal of their rhetorical power. Ditto for the mythical "right of return," one of BDS' cornerstones, which has no basis in international law in these circumstances. Beyond that, Sultany makes it clear that human rights and international law have no value to Palestinian Arab nationalist thought. They are only concerned with what they call "justice." And who decides whether justice is served? Why, they are! And there can be no justice, in their minds, while Israel exists. This is not compatible with international law, and Sultany knows it. But he figures that using the fig leaf of international law, with luck, can weaken Israel enough that the "justice" part of the equation can then have a chance of succeeding. Sultany is saying, in effect, that while they use the language of international law and human rights, it is just a scam to fool clueless Western liberals. To be sure, they work tirelessly to ensure that NGOs adhere to their definitions of terms like "occupation", but in the back of their minds they know that international and humanitarian law is not nearly as supportive of their movement as they pretend it is. Sultany is warning the BDSers that they just might end up on the wrong end of the law before they finish their goal of making Jews as weak and marginalized as Christians are in the Middle East. His third warning is about being too serious about boycotting everything that is "Zionist:" Transforming every aspect of the political struggle to a boycott-orientation reduces the range of political means and vocabulary. Not every adverse discourse or initiative should be addressed through the boycott prism. Surely, these initiatives, to the extent that they warrant criticism, can and should be critiqued. However, the discourse of boycott is inapplicable when the object of the critique is not a state-sponsored activity, nor an Israeli or foreign institution involved in sustaining the occupation militarily or economically. The boycott campaign should be based on credible evidence of targeted institutions' role in sustaining the apartheid regime's practices.The argument can be extended to make sure that Apple or Google or Microsoft aren't boycotted, since that would be counterproductive. As he says explicitly, boycotting Zionist products is not a moral position but a political tool. That's why Sodastream and Max Brenner are perfect targets but Intel isn't. Yet BDS positions itself to the West as if it were a moral movement, using moral arguments! For the third time, Sultany is saying that BDS is a scam to fool clueless Western liberals by using language they can identify with, while the movement itself is actually anti-liberalism. It has no ethical problem with murdering Jews, it is willing to discard international law if that contradicts its idea of "justice," and it couches its goal in terms of a morality that it explicitly discards. This is not an essay that BDSers want thoughtful Western liberals to read. (h/t Spotlighting)      |
| Things not looking good on Iran Posted: 19 Nov 2013 02:20 AM PST Robert Satloff in Politico writes: The current crisis is already one of the biggest U.S.-Israel blowups, ever—and it could get worse before it gets better. Israel's critique of U.S. Iran policy has three key aspects.The signals from the US get even worse. Yesterday, John Kerry said, "I have no specific expectations with respect to the negotiations in Geneva except that we will negotiate in good faith and we will try to get a first-step agreement and hope that Iran will understand the importance of coming there prepared to create a document that can prove to the world that this is a peaceful program." In the first year of the Obama administration, statements coming from top officials showed that the US believed that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. On May 24, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), Admiral Michael Mullen, said "Well, I believe then and I still believe that Iran's strategic objective is to achieve nuclear weapons, and that that path continues. Their leadership is committed to it. They conducted a missile test this last week that was successful, which continues to improve their missile delivery system and capability. Their intent seems very clear to me, and I'm one who believes if they achieve that objective, that it is incredibly destabilizing for the region. And I think eventually for the world." Now, Kerry seems to be saying that Iran only needs to produce a document that can prove it has no military dimensions to its nuclear program. It is an invitation to Iran to show that it can hide its activities. (This has been a key IAEA requirement for years, and Iran has never shown interest.) Even more troubling, by backing off on demands to suspend the enrichment program, the US has already weakened UN Security Council Chapter VII resolutions calling on Iran to do exactly that. By contrast, the Bush administration - while also willing to talk with Iran and willing to allow it to have a civilian nuclear program - always insisted that enrichment must stop. There is nothing wrong with talks, but here the US seems to be abandoning its long-held positions while Iran has not budged an inch. It is hardly how a superpower should be acting. (h/t Zvi, Stan)      |
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